The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1887-09-08
TEMPERANCE.
N. j. Phillips, chairman reads !:

year, passed strong and emphatic res
olutions condemning the use of all in
toxicating drinks as q beverage, and
pledging our sympathy and support,
as Baptsts, in favor of the entire sup
preston of the liquor traffic through
out the country.
The Tennessee Baptist Convention
in session at Nashville last October,
without a dissenting voice, passed the
following among other resolutions:
RESOLVED, That as delegates OF
the State Baptist Convention we
pledge our influence and our votes to
aid in the work OF prohibition as it is
now presented to the people OF Ten
nessee. The Southern Baptist Con-
vention, the largest representative
body of Christions in the world. in
session at Louisville, Kyo in May
1887, unanimously adopted a number
of resolutions on the subject, one of
which is the following;
"REsoLvED, That as representa-
tives of the great Baptist brotherhood
of the South in convention assembled,
we do solemnly protest against the
manufacture and sale OF ardent spirits
as a beverage, and will use our infu-
ence in every proper and legitimate
way for its suppression and prohibi-
ton"
In addition to the action Of general
and State conventions, as indexing
Baptist sentimenti in prohibition, your
committee calls attention to the fact
that every Baptist paper published in
the world advoc ties prohibition.
In the lang .ge OF the East Ten
nessee Baptist State Convention.
owe hail with delight the increasing
interest in the State and Nation in the
work of temperance, and believing
that the time has now come when no
Christian citizen, or minister of the
gospel, or church, should fail to COM
nit itself in favor of the prohibition OF
the manufacture and sale of all intox-
icating liquor as beverage" as our
religious bodies aforesaid have done
and,
Whereas, public sentiment in this
state is about to be- or may be crystal
lied into constitutional law, by the
ratification of the proposed constitu
tional amendment on the Goth day ot
September, 1887, your committee rec
ommends that the Holston Associa
ton reassert her loyalty to the cause
of temperance, and that we, as Bap
fists, do solemenly pledge ourselves tC
prove our faith and resolutions by
our works: that ministers preach an(
lecture on the subject; that the wo
men use their prayers and tears ant
influence, and that every laymen al
each and all put forth every legitimat
effort of body, mind and soul, in tn
strength OF God Almighty to gain
complete victory, on the Goth of Sept
over the liquor traffic, the hydrahead
ed monster of the nineteenth centu
ry.
N, J. Phillips, says;
The Baptists of the south are con
mitted on this question, They ar
not backward nor mealy mouthel
about. All over the country our reI
resentative bodies have spoken out i
unmistakable terms. Education
well, but this is the question Of th
age. Liquor is the monster evil, an
our great centers, Nashville, Chatta
nooga, and Knoxville are full of it.
it is not checked by prohibition it wi
ruin our brothers, husbands and son
1t is in the hands OF the worst me
in the country. No good man ca
be found in a saloon. They hay
money to carry out all their nefariol
designs, They not only CORFU
youth, but they buy up legislators ar
the votes ol Jhe corrupt of all Il
country. They work no good to an
body but evil and evil continually
everyone.
God is the author of prohibitio
He says, "Thou shalt not steal
"Thou shalt not bear false witness
and also "Look not upon the wine"
DR., J. B. WI ,e, says;
TAXEs.-Touch mans pocket al
you touch his heart-but we pay 0
for liquor over 100000 more than
receive. This is manifest to all W
will look into the facts. A healt
mans heart, from medical sta
point, pulsotes 70 times every mint
but whenyou put apint of whisky il
him then his heart pulsates 96 tin
to the minute. This is just so mu
more than health will permit, and
is no wonder that men who drink
not live out half their days Who
it that die of heart disease? They
men who drink, either openly or |
vately. / know whereof | spe
The evil is not in the fruit. 1t